(a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
(a.) Secret; clandestine.
(a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
(a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
(n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.
(n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) He or she is privy to all facets of care that are being administered to the patient.
(2) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
(3) He privately told the privy counsellors' committee of inquiry set up to review the events leading up to the invasion: "If I may be very frank and rather rude, you had to keep the ball in the air with the Argentines.
(4) I can therefore tell all members of this house that the cross-party charter will be on the agenda at a specially convened meeting of the privy council on 30 October.
(5) The use of self-topping aqua privies, discharging through sewers to oxidation ponds, has made possible the economic installation of water-carriage systems of waste disposal in low-cost high-density housing areas.In the oxidation ponds, typhoid bacteria appear to be more resistant than indicator organisms; helminths, cysts and ova settle out; there are no snails and, if peripheral vegetation is removed, mosquitos will not breed.
(6) The privy council’s antiquated oath, which is supposed to remain secret, also requires members to promise “not (to) know or understand of any manner of thing to be attempted, done, or spoken against Her Majesty’s person, honour, crown, or dignity royal”.
(7) They were challenged by Democratic senator Ron Wyden who, as a member of the committee, has for years been privy to classified briefings that he cannot discuss in public.
(8) Under the agreement, the royal charter must be granted by the Privy Council which meets on 8 May and then sealed by the Queen.
(9) Asked about the invitation, Cameron’s official spokesman would only say that the prime minister had been clear in public that all privy counsellors were entitled to security briefings if they asked for them.
(10) "So why are the government rushing it through to the privy council, which they control through the cabinet?
(11) "Creating some sort of privy power seems quite an interesting alternative to Leveson's recommendations for statue, which we oppose," said Cooper.
(12) The privy council only provides the flummery which camouflages their autocracy.
(13) Not being privy to the processing and presentation of SPZ Ag, we postulated that a different order of processing of the authentic, i.e., SPZ-associated CS protein vs soluble rCS protein might be responsible for the generation of different T cell specificities.
(14) Today, the privy council is headed by Nick Clegg and is made up of all cabinet ministers and a number of junior ministers.
(15) I believe in having all the information, as much of it as I possibly can, rather than making a decision or statement about whether I totally agree or disagree when I wasn't privy to the situation."
(16) He was also considering a new bill which would ensure the charter could not be changed by the Privy Council and could only be changed by a "super majority" – perhaps two thirds – vote in the Lords and the Commons.
(17) There is the scope for members of the national security council, privy councillors, to ask questions and the like to better understand the work that the agencies do.
(18) But Ashworth said the public deserved answers, "given that Mr Rock had a senior role at the heart of government and was privy to the most sensitive information".
(19) Speaking to journalists at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch in London, Whittingdale said: "There is a real possibility that the Queen or privy council will refuse to recommend any royal charter when there is disagreement between the parties or disagreement between the government and industry.
(20) During the time of the Norman kings the privy council was the main body which governed Britain, fulfilling the kind of role that cabinet performs today.
Siege
Definition:
(n.) A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
(n.) Hence, place or situation; seat.
(n.) Rank; grade; station; estimation.
(n.) Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
(n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade.
(n.) Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
(n.) The floor of a glass-furnace.
(n.) A workman's bench.
(v. t.) To besiege; to beset.
Example Sentences:
(1) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(2) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
(3) Madaya: residents of besieged Syrian town say they are being starved to death Read more The Syrian regime and Hezbollah have put Madaya under siege for more than six months now as a response to the siege of the northern towns of Fua and Kefraya by anti-regime forces.
(4) Libraries were already under siege before the recession struck.
(5) As we settle down to chat in the deputy prime minister's ramshackle constituency base at 85 Netherfield Road, Sheffield, it is hard to dispel the impression that he's still a man under siege.
(6) Meanwhile Burnham is a blue Scouser, and nobody really hates Evertonians because they make sweets, and haven’t beaten anyone of note since Prince Rupert’s siege of 1644 .
(7) In 1993, at the Branch Davidian religious compound outside Waco, Texas, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms didn’t wait for the sect leader, David Koresh, to leave before attempting to arrest him and got into a gun battle that claimed 10 victims and led to a disastrous 51-day siege culminating in dozens more deaths.
(8) Madaya is an example of where over a million Syrians remain under siege with extremely limited medical evacuations today.” Speaking on behalf of the Syrian NGO alliance, Fadi Al-Dairi, the co-founder of Hand in Hand for Syria, told the Guardian: “We have been cooperating with OCHA, but we would add our points and OCHA Damascus would remove them.
(9) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
(10) The noise was back and so was the siege, the ball thrown into the area, bodies flying.
(11) Sydney siege inquest: hostage pleaded with police to storm Lindt cafe urgently Read more They had taken cover after the final group to escape the siege had successfully fled in the early hours of 16 December 2014.
(12) The mood did not improve in 1980 when Iran's London embassy was taken over by Iraqi-backed gunmen before the siege was dramatically ended by the SAS hostage rescue.
(13) Killer Mike and Talib Kweli both appeared on news channels such as CNN and Fox to offer measured words on the situation (Killer Mike: “We have essentially gone from being communities that were policed by people from the communities to being communities that are policed by strangers, and that’s no longer a community, that’s an area that’s under siege”), while Common interrupted the MTV Video Music Awards to deliver a considered monologue on Ferguson , calling for a moment of silence “for Mike Brown and for peace in this country and in the world”.
(14) The second half came to resemble a siege, with Tottenham committing numbers forward and creating openings, and Newcastle struggling to escape their half.
(15) So they'll free a few hostages, but continue siege?
(16) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
(17) Ohler’s book may well irritate some historians; he makes flippant remarks and uses chapter titles such as “Sieg High!” and “High Hitler”.
(18) The inquest heard at times harrowing detail about how gangs of local teenagers and children, some as young as 10, had the family "under siege".
(19) An orderly process of dealing with asylum claims at the earliest point would be infinitely preferable to desperate families laying siege to central European railway stations, risking their lives clinging on to vehicles at Calais or suffocating in vehicles transporting them across borders.
(20) He says incidents like that which left Omran Daqneesh stunned and bloodied are all too common in a city under siege The pictures of the injured five-year old Omran Daqneesh have shocked the world, but doctors in Aleppo see dozens of desperate children like him every week, often with worse injuries and many entirely beyond help.